. The night of the gods; an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology and symbolism . uth-West wind, which brought disease and death with it. There are four images of this monster in the British Museum and another in Paris. This figure seems to be connected with another in the De Clercq collection which backs (and looks over the front of) a bronze plaque, the designs on which M. Clermont- Ganneau takes to be the Assyrian hell, but which appear to be heavenly, funereal, and infernal ; containing in the upper stratum or compartment the winged sphere side by side with the 8-spoked wheel, both
. The night of the gods; an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology and symbolism . uth-West wind, which brought disease and death with it. There are four images of this monster in the British Museum and another in Paris. This figure seems to be connected with another in the De Clercq collection which backs (and looks over the front of) a bronze plaque, the designs on which M. Clermont- Ganneau takes to be the Assyrian hell, but which appear to be heavenly, funereal, and infernal ; containing in the upper stratum or compartment the winged sphere side by side with the 8-spoked wheel, both being flanked with other emblems. In the second compartment is a row of Seven i long-robed figures, one arm up and ^^^^ ^^ one down, each owning the head of some animal. These are the heavenly genii called Igigis. They may parallel the Seven Kabirim. The plaque is engraved in Mr. Babelons book.^ As to the 4-winged animal-god or jinni whose back we see as he looks over the plaque, his face is that of a leopard, his body that of a dog, and his hind legs those of a large raptorial Baby I. Life and Hist., 139. , ^l/i?«//(?/(enlarged), p. 132. 748 The. Night of the Gods. [The The Wings of Kronos. I MUST here comment more fully than has yet been doneupon the symbolic representation of the Phcenician ll—theKronos of Philo—which was given by the Phcenician Sanconiathon : Taautos, that is Thoth, . . imagined for Kronos theinsignia of his royalty: four eyes before and behind, of which twoare in repose and shut [while the two others are open], and onhis shoulders four wings, two raised and two lowered, to expresssymbolically that Kronos saw sleeping, and slept awake, [whichhas been dealt with under The Eye of Heaven ;] and in thesame way the positions of the wings show that he flew in repose,and reposed in flying. [Just the symbolism for the Polar Powerwhirling the heavens round, but ever reposing himself at themotionless centre of motion.] He had also two wings on the hea
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